Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The wheat season ends in late July, and by around August 10th, the black tiger paw mushroom is no longer available.

After the wheat season ended, Li Long took some time to return to Team 4.

In fact, Xie Yundong and his friends were also waiting for Li Long to come back. Yesterday, his father Li Qingxia came to deliver fish and told Li Long that Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng had both been to their home. After the wheat season, they made a lot of money, but it was not safe to keep the money with them. However, they still had some work to do in the team, so they did not come to the county. They planned to wait a few days and if Li Long did not come to the team, they would come directly to the county.

Li Long had nothing else to do, so he simply said goodbye to Gu Xiaoxia and drove the jeep out of the yard.

It was summer vacation, and the children were either working with their parents or playing outside. Li Long saw many children playing in the reed ditch.

Seeing the jeep coming, the children stopped playing in the water and rushed to the road shouting and running after it. Some ran home. Many people knew that Li Long was back.

There were piles of wheat straw on the roadside, and some wheat tails were left in the middle of the field. In the next period of time, there would be piles of sunflower heads and corn cobs.

If there are a lot of things, someone might put up a mosquito net in the wheat field to watch the grain at night.

After all, these days people don't lock their doors at night and don't steal things on the road.

Li Long had watched the wheat in the wheat field, and he took the initiative, because he felt it was quite comfortable to sleep in the wheat field at night - of course, mosquitoes were also very fierce, and mosquito nets basically could not completely prevent them.

When the jeep drove into the yard, Li Long heard Li Qiang and another child playing a game imitating lines from the movie:

“——Yaoyaodongdongguai, Yaoyaodongdongguai, Bohai is calling you, Bohai is calling you, please answer if you hear me, please answer if you hear me!”

"... Yellow River, Yellow River. I am the Yangtze River. I am the Yangtze River. If you hear me, please answer me!"

The two people had on their heads a device made by plucking the heads of sunflowers and tying them together with a slightly larger mouth that looked like a microphone on a pole. It was similar to the headphones of later generations and sounded quite realistic.

As soon as the jeep entered the yard, the two men stopped playing and came over to the jeep. Li Qiang shouted loudly:

"Uncle, uncle!"

Li Long turned off the engine, got out of the jeep, patted Li Qiang on the head and asked:
"Qiangqiang, have you finished your homework?"

Li Qiang raised his head proudly:
"It's finished!"

Li Long nodded. In fact, he also knew that with Li Juan supervising him, it was impossible for Li Qiang not to finish his homework. School was about to start, and the children's play was the last crazy time.

At this time, Li Qingxia went to Shicheng to sell fish. There was not much work left in the fields. The Li family had planted a lot of crops. After the wheat was harvested, there were still five acres of sunflowers and five acres of corn. The rest was to harvest melons.

Sunflowers are planted mainly for their oil, but of course half of it needs to be used to pay the public grain tax - paying the public grain tax does not only involve paying grain, but also paying oil crops. The oil crops planted by the fourth team were mainly sesame and rapeseed in the past, but have gradually been changed to sunflowers in the past two years, mainly because the yield is higher than the other two.

Even after thirty or forty years, the yield of rapeseed and sesame has always been relatively low. They are hardly planted on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. However, on the Ili River Valley, in places such as ZS County and NLK County, they are planted in larger areas.

Later, the rapeseed flowers in ZS County became a nationally famous tourist attraction. Combined with economic crops such as perilla, the colors are very beautiful and attracted many people.

After corn is grown, it is mainly used to feed pigs and chickens - of course, a lot of good corn will be selected and processed into cornmeal, and the family will make cornmeal porridge to drink.

Li Juan and Li Qiang would also ask to save some for the people who make popcorn when they come.

Du Chunfang was picking tomatoes in the vegetable garden, preparing to make some sauce later. Of course, before making the sauce, she would squeeze out the seeds and dry them for use next year.

I used to have a vegetable garden in my hometown, but that little garden could never compare to the ones here, and the vegetables grown there were not so abundant - when have you ever seen so much endless vegetables?
Most of the vegetables in each family’s vegetable garden cannot be eaten up, and now it is time to prepare for making sauce, drying vegetables and pickling pickles.

Li Long patted Li Qiang and told him to go play. He went to help Du Chunfang carry a basket of tomatoes out of the vegetable garden. As he carried the tomatoes, he asked:

"Mom, where are my elder brother and sister-in-law?"

"They're going to the melon field." Du Chunfang followed Li Long outside with a smile, saying as they walked, "The melons are ripe. They're going to spray pesticides. There's a field infested with insects."

The elder brother and his wife had high hopes for the melon field. The harvest from the melon field allowed Li Jianguo to buy a tractor, but that was only ten acres of land. This year, there are twenty acres, and the harvest will definitely be more than last year.

Therefore, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei will be more dedicated.

Li Long carried the basket to the underside of the shed, put it down, and prepared to help Du Chunfang clean the bottles of tomato sauce.

"Don't worry about it, just do your own thing." Du Chunfang didn't want Li Long to do these jobs. She stubbornly believed that these jobs were for women and men should not interfere.

Li Long smiled and planned to visit Xie Yundong's home.

Before he even started driving the jeep, he heard the sound of a tractor rumbling outside.

There were only a few families in Team 4 who had tractors. Li Long walked to the door and saw that the person driving the tractor was Liang Dacheng.

Li Long pointed forward and walked towards his own yard.

Liang Dacheng slowed down the tractor and entered the yard with Li Long.

After the tractor turned off, Liang Dacheng jumped down and said to Li Long with a smile:
"I just heard from my neighbor that you drove your jeep back, and I thought you were here."

Li Long opened the door and took out two small stools. He handed one to Liang Dacheng and placed one by the door. He did not sit down, but went to the vegetable garden to pick a tomato. While eating, he asked:

"How's it going? You harvested a lot this year, right?"

"Hey, Shuangcheng and I harvested more than 3,000 acres of wheat this year, almost 4,000 acres!"

"You two are really good at competing!" Li Long was shocked when he heard this. Last year, he harvested more than 2,000 acres of crops, and that one was tanned into a charcoal black.

But then again, they are two brothers who take turns, so it's normal for them to cut more.

"Hey, that's right! Xie Yundong harvested about 3,000 acres, and so did Tao Daqiang. Your eldest brother harvested quite a bit too. Our team, plus the third and fourth teams, has almost 3,000 acres. If it weren't for that thing in the first team, which also had a harvester, your eldest brother might have harvested even more."

It is indeed an era of huge profits. Li Long calculated that the cost of harvesting wheat is the cost of oil and labor. As for the depreciation of harvesters and tractors, it is basically not much.

By this calculation, these people earned an average of 4,000 to 5,000 yuan per wheat season - after all, oil is cheap these days.

If people were to tell others that he earned enough money to make a tractor in just one wheat season, it would shock everyone.

Many people will be envious to death.

"Have you never thought that money is so easy to make?" Li Long said with a smile while eating tomatoes.

"Yes." Liang Dacheng said with emotion, "When I used to catch fish and sell them, I could earn ten or twenty yuan a day, and I thought that was enough money, much better than the workers in the factory.

Now that I'm suddenly making so much money, I feel a little uneasy... I don't know..."

Liang Dacheng hesitated to speak. Li Long knew what he wanted to say and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, we earn this money cleanly and within the scope allowed by the country. We don't rob or steal, and we don't break the law, so nothing will happen."

Liang Dacheng nodded.

Li Long smiled and said:
"If something really happened, Wang Caimi would have been in trouble long ago, it's not our turn."

When talking about Wang Caimi, Liang Dacheng laughed. Yes, Wang Caimi was the first one in the team to use the tractor to work and get paid. If there was any problem, he would definitely be the first one to get involved.

There are people like Wang Caimi in every production team. If nothing happens to them, then nothing will happen to Liang Dacheng and his team. "Compared to them, the money you earn is really not much." Li Long gave Liang Dacheng another reassurance, "Think about how much money our team makes from plowing, sowing, harrowing, and leveling the land in a year?"

After thinking about it and calculating again, Liang Dacheng was completely relieved this time. Compared with Wang Caimi, although his money seemed like a lot of money, it was far less than Wang's.

"Are you relieved now?" Li Long smiled.

"I'm relieved. By the way, this is the money I should give you." Liang Dacheng took out a schoolbag and handed it to Li Long. "There is 4,000 yuan in it. Once you take this money, we will be completely relieved. Although I have been driving this tractor for more than half a year, to be honest, I feel a little more at ease now."

Liang Dacheng said earlier that the two brothers had harvested nearly 4,000 acres of land, so it was less than 4,000 acres, about 7,000 to 8,000 acres.

After deducting the costs, there is only about 7,000 yuan left.

Liang Dacheng gave most of the profits to Li Long.

Li Long took the money without saying anything. Without counting it, he said to Liang Dacheng:
"Next year, just give me half of the money after deducting the cost."

This is considered his initial investment and he should get the lion's share, so Li Long will not show off his generosity by asking for less.

Without the tractor and harvester he bought for Liang Dacheng, it would take Liang Dacheng at least two years to get into this profitable job, and it would be hard to say whether he would still be able to make money this way by then.

The point is that even if Liang Dacheng buys a tractor, it is hard to say whether he can buy a harvester, or whether he can see the harvester make money.

Seeing that Li Long had received the money, Liang Dacheng smiled and said:
"Let's talk about it next year. To be honest, I won't lose out if I give you another thousand dollars. But we still need to buy some other things and medicine for my parents, so we left a little more."

One of the main reasons why Li Long chose Liang Dacheng and Xie Yundong was that they were trustworthy, conscientious, and grateful.

Otherwise, as for the profit-sharing agreement that he and these two people talked about, they were fooling him behind his back and he had no way to deal with it.

At least for now, it seems that Li Long's vision is quite accurate and he made the right choice of people.

I didn't do anything this wheat season, but I made 4,000 yuan. This is proof...

Of course, it is impossible that there are only four thousand. Xie Yundong still has more.

Tao Daqiang was the first one to follow him, and Li Long did not share any money he earned, as it all belonged to the Tao family.

But this is what Tao Daqiang deserves. After all, when many people thought that Li Long was unreliable, it was Tao Daqiang who followed him and supported him without hesitation.

Liang Dacheng handed the money to Li Long, chatted with Li Long for a few more words, and then drove away on the tractor.

Although it is not the busiest time now, there is still a lot of work to do in the fields, so he still has to drive the tractor to the fields.

Li Long carried the bag containing the money into the house, and took out the quilts in the house to dry them out in the sun.

The sun in August and September is still quite strong, so it’s the perfect time to dry your quilts.

The main vegetables in the vegetable fields here are peppers, tomatoes, celery, carrots, etc. Sword beans and cowpeas are out of season.

He picked another small, sandy tomato from the vegetable garden and ate it while carrying his money bag to the backyard. He originally thought that since Liang Dacheng knew he was back, Xie Yundong should also know.

But after waiting for a while, Xie Yundong didn't come, and Li Long guessed that he must have gone to work in the fields.

So I gave up the idea of ​​going to his house and prepared to do some odd jobs in the back yard.

Before lunch, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back on a tractor, and soon Xie Yundong also came on a tractor.

One could sense that Xie Yundong had just returned from the field, as there were still a few long wormwood plants stuck on the edge of the tractor's back bucket.

Before dinner started, Li Long took Xie Yundong to the front yard to talk.

"Xiaolong, you're finally here." Xie Yundong got out of the car, also holding a cloth bag in his hand, "If you don't come, we'll go to the street to look for you - we're worried."

Xie Yundong gave Li Long three thousand five hundred yuan, and Li Long did not refuse. He also told Xie Yundong what he had said to Liang Dacheng.

Li Long could feel that Xie Yundong was now at ease and content. Perhaps in his heart, this tractor truly belonged to him now, right?

At least even if the tractor is returned to Li Long now, he can afford a new one.

Of course, this cannot be done.

After lunch, Li Long was sent back to the county by Li Jianguo. Li Long originally wanted to help in the melon field, but Li Jianguo said that it was not necessary and that he should just take good care of his wife and children.

The next day, Li Long met Liang Wenyu in the yard. He brought Li Long 5,000 yuan, which was the money to buy a tractor.

Li Long was not polite either - he originally left money for the Liang family to buy a tractor, and later because he went to the tractor factory, he simply bought the tractor as well. At that time, the Liang family returned the cash to him, and now it was considered that they had also given him the money for the tractor.

It can be seen that although Liang Wenyu is a little darker, he is obviously much more confident.

"How much wheat have you harvested this season?" Li Long asked.

"Three thousand eight." Liang Wenyu gestured twice, "How about it?"

"That's a lot!" Li Long praised sincerely, "I only harvested less than 3,000 acres of land last year."

"Hehe, this year many people are willing to use the harvester. Besides, my dad and I take turns, so we can harvest more."

This is a good thing. Only when more and more people are willing to use harvesters to harvest wheat, will such mechanization become more popular in the future.

It can also reversely promote the process of mechanization.

Li Long only hopes to develop and introduce a large tractor as soon as possible, as that is where he can make money.

Think about it, the mechanized tillage fee for one acre of land is seven or eight yuan, and a high-powered tractor can mow 400 acres in one day and one night, that's...

Well, forget it.

Crazy era!
After Liang Wenyu left, Li Long packed the last batch of black tiger paw mushrooms that were drying in his yard and took them to the purchasing station to sell them.

The income from the wheat season was 12,500 yuan. Although I didn't get back all the money I put into the tractor, it was almost there. Next year, it will basically be pure profit.

Li Long did not operate a harvester himself during the wheat season, but he sold the black tiger palm mushrooms he picked and collected from Sun Jiaqiang for nearly four thousand yuan. In addition, he has sold more than forty harvesters from the beginning of spring to now, earning nearly ten thousand yuan, so his income from this aspect totaled twenty-six thousand five hundred yuan.

I feel like the money is coming much faster this year than last year.

During the following period, Li Long still went to the mountains almost every day. Sun Jiaqiang had left the cabin and went home.

The main reason is that after the black tiger palm mushroom season is over, there is nothing to do in the mountains during this period. The codonopsis season is not until October, and he can't wait and wants to go home early.

Li Long went into the mountain mainly to wait for Halimu and the others. After all, he planned to drive the tractor into the mountain to harvest grass for Halimu and the others.

Of course, he also wanted to see Halimu's expression when he saw the changed winter nest and sheep washing pool. (End of this chapter)